Took me 5 years to try a stud welder for dents, now I get it

I used to fight every dent with a slide hammer and tons of filler. Last month a fender on a Chevy Silverado in Austin had a crease right on the body line and I was about to load it up with mud. My buddy Dale who runs the shop next door saw me and said "just use my stud welder, it takes 10 minutes." I always thought those things were for rookies or hobby guys. He set it up and showed me how the little pins pull the metal back without burning through. I did the whole repair with maybe an eighth of the filler I normally use. The body line came out straight and the customer was happy with the bare metal finish. Now I got my own unit and I'm kicking myself for all the hours I wasted. Is there a trick to getting the pins to stick better on galvanized panels or is it just about cleaning the surface twice as hard? Has anyone else switched late and felt dumb about it?

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